Lubricator



Dec. 10, 1929. s. P. SIMMONS LUBRICATOR I File d Sept. 28, 1927 Patented Dec. 10, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE P. SIMMONS, OF HERKIMER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO I-IORROCKS DESK COMPANY, OF HERKIMER, NEW YORK, A CGRPORATION 0F NEVT YORK LUBRICATOR Application filed September 28, 1927. Serial H'o. 222,597.

This invention pertains to lubricators, and more particularly to such as are attached to or used with the brasses of railway car'journal boxes. The structure hereinafter set forth and claimed is an improvement upon the invention set forth in Letters Patent No. 1,502,406 granted to me under date July 2:2, 1924.

The main object of the present invention is to provide an improved means for securing the ends of a wick such as is disclosed in said patent and in the present case, in position with reference to the brass, the arrangement being such that the retaining fingers or lugs may be readily bent outwardly and then inwardly, with a view to positioning and clamping the ends of the wick in place.

A further object of the invention is to provide means to carry the looped end of the wick away from the end of the ournal, and thus prevent the wick from being pinched and cut, as sometimes happens under the older construction above referred to.

The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a journal box having a brass embodying the present invention, positioned therein in working relation to the journal;

Fig. 2, a transverse vertical sectional view on the line IIII of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, an enlarged perspective view showing the. brass and the wick, a portion of the latter being indicated in dotted lines more clearly to show the formation of the brass.

In the drawing, 1 denotes the journal box as a whole, 2 the journal, 3 the ordinary wedge or block, and 4 the brass as a whole, said brass underlying the wedge 3 and res ing upon the upper portion of the journal. The brass is provided upon each of its longitudinal edges with means for accomplishing the holding and positioning of the work above referred to, and inasmuch as the structure on one side is the same as that upon the other, the same numerals will be employed to indicate like parts, with the exponent a added thereto to indicate the different sides.

As in the patented structure above referred to, the brass is provided along each edge with a projecting ledge 5 which is broadened out at the forward or outer end as at 6, and extending from said broadened portion of each ledge, outwardly and preferably in an upward direction, is a shelf 7 slightly concave in cross section, and adapted to receive the wick 8. T his wick is bent or doubled at its midlength to make two separate stretches or portions to lie along the journal beneath the ledges 5-43, and to form at the forward or outward end of the brass a depending loop which reaches to or practically to the bottom of the oil well in the journal box 1 (see Fig. 1). It is convenient when applying the wick to the brass to place its two ends together to produce the bend or fold at its midlength, and to carry each stretch or free end over one or the other of the shelves 7, 7*, thence lownward through the openings 9 formed in the enlargements 6 and 6 of each ledge '5, then backward beneath the ledges 5, and finally upward into the notch or recess 10 at the rear of each ledge 5, as seen in Figs. 1 and 3. The shelves 7, 7 a project'beyond the end of the brass 4 as shown in said Figs. 1 and 3., thus causing the depending loop formed by the midlength portion of the wick to be positioned clear of and held away from the end of the journal. This prevents the loop being brought into contact with the j ournal, and pinching or cutting thereof, as has occasionally happened under former constructions.

In the process of manufacturing or casting the brass there is inserted in the core or sand, a malleable pin or wire, as 11, and the inner end of said wire becomes embedded in and practically an integral portion of the brass, the pin extending from the rear end of ledge 5 and lying in spaced relation to the vertical wall of the recess 10. Copper wire will pre erably be employed for this purpose, as it may be sent outwardly and inwardly many times without breaking. When bent outwardly the pin permits ready insertion of the upwardly extending end of the wick (see Figs. 1 and 3), which latter may then be readily clamped in position by merely forcing the wire inwardly and placing the wick under compression at this point.

The wick so positioned with reference to the journal effects that degree of lubrication which is produced by the structure shown in Patent No. 1,502,406, while at the same time the forward end of said wick is carried away from the outer or head end of the journal, and is prvented from being pinched or rubbed thereby. The looped forward portion of the wick will, as in the structure of the prior pat ent, dip down into the oil, and by reason ofcapillary attraction carry the lubricant up to the brass. The forwardly extend ing gutter-shaped shelves 7 and 7 form an adequate support for the wick and tend to divert any oil which may pass from the wick to the same, downwardly to the openings 9 and to that portion of the wick which e2;- tends through such openings.

Any. suitable'wicking may be employed, though in practice it is preferred to use a wick having wires of copper or the like incorporated therein and brought to the surface at frequent intervals. The wick forms 7 no part of the present invention, and the partherefrom in the form of a loop.

ticular type here disclosed is not essential. to the operation of the device.

Any convenient mode of applying or attaching the pins 11 to the brass may of course be adopted, that herein set forth having been found satisfactory in practice.

What is claimed is 1. A brass for use in journal boxes, provided at both ends and on opposite sides with wick-supporting means adapted. to receive and support between them and in contact with the journal, the end portions of a wick, the supports at the forward end of the brass projecting beyond the body thereof, whereby, they are adapted to hold the intermediate depending loop of a wick beyond and clear of the journal.

2. A brass or saddle for journal boxes, provided at its rear end and at both sides with means for holding the ends of a wick, and at its forward end and on both sides provided with shelves projecting forwardly beyond the end of the brass, and thereby adapted to support a wick and hold it beyond and out ofcontact with the end of a journal.

3. A brass or saddle for journal boxes, having at each side near one end a notchor recess to receive a wick end; means for securing the ends of a W101; 111 said recesses; and

concaveshelves at the opposite endsandfat both sides of said brass to support the wick atsaid points, said shelves extending beyond the end'of the brass to hold the wick clear of the end of the brass and the ournal to. which it may, be applied, while permitting the intermediate portion of the wick 'to depend i. A brass for use in journal boxes, having on opposite sides at its inner end means for securing the ends of a wick in position with reference thereto; and shelves extending forwardly from and beyond the opposite end of the brass at opposite sides thereof, the inner end of each shelf terminating in line with an opening extending downwardly through theadjacent portion of the brass.

5. A brass for nse in journal boxes having its side walls or edges at one end thereof cut away or recessed; and a malleable pin extending outwardly from the body of the brass in spaced relation to a wall of the recess, whereby a wick may be inserted in the recess and held in position with reference to the brass by forcing the pin inwardly against the Wick.

6. A brass for use in journal boxes, having at its outer end and at each side thereof a wick-supporting member extending beyond the end of the braSS, whereby saidmernbers are adapted to suspend an intermediate portion of a wick carried by them, in the form of a loop, beyond, and tohold it. clear of, a journal to which the brass be. applied.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GEQRGE PL SIMMON S. 

